A man admitted in court Friday to being part of an arson extortion syndicate targeting South Asian home builders in Edmonton.
Manav Heer, wearing an orange jumpsuit, pleaded guilty to extortion, conspiring to commit extortion, attempting to cause fire to property and using an imitation firearm during an offence.
The chief executive of Canada Infrastructure Bank is defending a $1-billion loan to help BC Ferries buy four new ships from China, saying it will lead to improved service for ferry users.
Ehren Cory provided the perspective Friday during an appearance before the House of Commons transport and infrastructure committee, which was gathered to address the controversy over BC Ferries not buying the vessels from Canadian shipyards.
De nombreux secteurs ont salué la fermeté d'Ottawa, qui, insatisfait, n'a pas conclu d'accord avec les É.-U.
La Switch 2 devrait significativement améliorer les résultats de Nintendo pour l'exercice 2025-2026.
Harsh temperatures and heavy smoke have triggered heat warnings and air-quality alerts for large swaths of the country this weekend, as hundreds of wildfires remain uncontained in Western and Central Canada.
Higher-risk conditions are anticipated in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, prompting special bulletins from Environment and Climate Change Canada for dozens of cities and towns. Meteorologists expect dryness, heat and lower precipitation to create ripe weather conditions for intense fire behaviour.
La Gatinoise a devancé Sade McCreath et Jacqueline Madogo, qui ont terminé respectivement 2e et 3e.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said she has temporarily closed her constituency office in Oakville, Ont., after a number of incidents left staff feeling unsafe.
Ms. Anand did not specify the nature of the incidents, but said that she is working with security services to resolve the issue.
Les membres de l'unité de négociation urbaine ont rejeté l'offre à 68,5 %.
La hausse des tarifs aura un impact limité car elle ne touche qu'une faible portion des exportations.
When a group of Canadian researchers evaluated B.C.’s universal coverage for contraceptives, they uncovered data they say warrants further study on how misinformation could be affecting use among younger women.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the team found a significant immediate bump in prescriptions per month across all age groups after the province made contraceptives free starting in April, 2023. But the researchers also saw “steep declines” both before and months after the policy was introduced, among women aged 20-29.
Le responsable du virage numérique de la SAAQ s’opposait à cette convocation à huis clos.
Le Montréalais était le dernier canadien toujours en lice en simple masculin à l'Omnium Banque Nationale.
Elle s'est inclinée en trois manches de 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 devant la Lettone Anastasija Sevastova.
Canada’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood is a grave mistake, for several reasons.
First, it rewards terrorism. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wrong about many things, but he is right about that.
Vancouver paid just over $2-million in severance to 34 non-union employees since the new ABC party was elected in late 2022, putting it at the top of the list for severance payouts among British Columbia’s biggest cities since the last civic election.
But that figure, well above the average in Vancouver, is not routinely made available in the city’s financial statements. City watchers have decried the lack of transparency and say the turbulence is one consequence of new mayors and councils wanting to make a public show of big change.
Dans son 4e roman, Naomi Fontaine flirte avec le réel et le fictif pour raconter la résistance des Innus.
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said talks with the Americans will continue over the coming weeks, after the two sides failed to reach a deal by Friday, which would have averted the imposition of 35-per-cent tariffs on some Canadian goods.
But a new deal in the short term isn’t likely, Mr. LeBlanc said in an interview with The Globe and Mail on Friday from Washington. He said he’ll be speaking to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick next week, and the two will meet in person later in August.
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Un rapport d’une ONG qui s’appuie sur des données publiques a semblé contredire le discours du gouvernement.
Il s’agit de la toute dernière hausse prévue par la Loi sur la protection du consommateur du Québec.
L'Omnium Banque Nationale organise un tournoi de tennis en fauteuil roulant, une première.
Contre toute attente, les sœurs nées dans le Nord de l'Ontario ont survécu jusqu’à l’âge adulte.
Tens of thousands of lightning strikes across British Columbia since Wednesday have created “a very dynamic” wildfire situation, with more than half the current fires started since the storms.
Emelie Peacock, an information officer with the BC Wildfire Service, said a week of dry and hot weather combined with lightning led to many new fire starts.
Ottawa is insisting it hasn’t been allowing exports of lethal weapons to Israel – days after the release of a report that says Israeli customs data indicates Canadian arms are still being exported there regularly.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Friday items that the Israel Tax Authority identified in customs data as “bullets” were actually “paintball-style projectiles” that cannot be used in combat.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating after a man died and two were injured in small airplane crash near the Ottawa International Airport on Thursday.
Ottawa paramedics said emergency crews responded to a wooded area near Riverside Drive and Hunt Club Road just before 6 p.m. after reports that the small plane crashed into trees.
Le gouvernement croit que le « changement culturel majeur » qui s’impose pour l’organisation prendra du temps.
Alberta regulations meant to keep old coal mines from polluting streams and lakes are failing, suggests a study by government scientists.
The study says high levels of numerous contaminants are having grave outcomes for aquatic life and their ecosystems.
Unionized workers at Canada Post are due to wind up voting on the Crown corporation’s latest contract Friday afternoon.
Voting is set to wrap up at 5 p.m., with results expected to be shared shortly after.
Good morning. The average person has access to more weather data than ever before, but when this flood of data consumes us, anxiety and misinformation tend to follow. More on that below, plus Canadian aid gets airdropped into Gaza, and new wildfire evacuations in B.C. But first:
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Twelve years ago, near some farmland northwest of Toronto, Adam Skinner was in the passenger seat of a Toyota Corolla, unknowingly heading straight into a tornado.
An amateur storm chaser, Mr. Skinner was using weather radar data on his phone to track the menacing clouds unleashing sheets of rain. The wind was so strong, the nearby highway sign started to wiggle and fold. But the radar had a five-minute delay, so it didn’t show the funnel cloud forming behind the rain.
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A teen girl found guilty of manslaughter in a deadly swarming attack on a homeless Toronto man will spend 16 months under probation with up to a year in an intensive support and supervision program.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Philip Campbell sentenced the girl this afternoon to three years, the maximum available for manslaughter in a youth case, minus 20 months of credit for the time she previously spent in custody.
Dans une ville ontarienne à 260 km de la frontière américaine, l'émancipation est soulignée depuis 1862.
Des interdictions concernant TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X et Snapchat entreront également en vigueur.
Le Doulos Hope parcourt les ports d’Asie pour offrir des livres à bas prix et de l’espoir.
Près de 90 artistes participent à la 18e édition d'Osheaga, qui débute vendredi au parc Jean-Drapeau.
Amazon avait prévenu qu'elle comptait investir plus de 100 milliards de dollars dans l'infonuagique et l'IA.
The Canadian government’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state in September reflects Ottawa’s deep frustration with the Israeli government and sends a strong message that it supports a two-state solution, but analysts say it likely will have little impact without U.S. support.
Prime Minister Mark Carney made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly. He said this is predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to important reforms, including president Mahmoud Abbas’s promise to hold general elections in 2026, in which Hamas could not take part, and the demilitarization of the Palestinian state.
Le président a adressé des lettres aux dirigeants de 17 grands groupes pharmaceutiques.
Reem Sultan’s uncle was killed in Gaza last December, her aunt died of malnutrition in January. Her cousin’s family of six, including children, perished when their home was bombed in May. Another cousin who went to retrieve and bury their bodies died in an air strike, killed while grieving the dead.
In all, the resident of London, Ont., has lost 15 close relatives in the Middle East conflict, but a tally of extended family members reaches closer to 100. So while Ms. Sultan welcomes the news that Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine, she says more is needed than just words.
Canada has joined 13 other countries, including the United States, Britain and France, to denounce what they describe as threatening Iranian state activity in Europe and North America.
Thursday’s statement does not detail specific incidents but speaks of attempts by Iranian intelligence “to kill, kidnap and harass” people.
At the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in October of 1992, the police created a barrier around Paul (Sparkle) Markle and a group of Toronto Blue Jays front office workers and players’ children and wives. It was Game 4 of the American League Championship Series and after Roberto Alomar slapped a ninth-inning, game-tying homer off A’s closer Dennis Eckersley, the fans, already rowdy, began sniffing for Canadian blood. The Jays eventually won in the 11th inning.
“The police said, ‘Stay in your seat until the crowd leaves,’ because we didn’t want to get rained on with popcorn and warm beer,” says Glen Wilkie, known as Hoop, Mr. Markle’s best friend of 67 years. As Mr. Wilkie relates, the Jays’ contingent did as the police advised, but the evening wasn’t over.
A truck hauling heavy machinery down a highway in British Columbia’s dry Okanagan region caught fire Wednesday, sparking a blaze in the nearby bush that has forced nearly a thousand people from their homes.
Patrick Van Minsel, Mayor of the District of Peachland, is among them.
For several years in the mid-2000s, I worked at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, where I managed a program for keen young musicians. I had met the virtuoso bassist Gary Karr earlier in my career. I doubted he would remember me, but knowing his dedication to music education I contacted him to ask if he and his partner, the pianist and harpsichordist Harmon Lewis, would host a musical evening for some of our students.
Their generosity was beyond what I could have hoped for. The visit to Gary and Harmon’s home in Saanich, B.C., became an annual event, eagerly anticipated by the students, and also their parents who competed for the opportunity to attend along with their kids. We brought the pizza, and we were given the run of the house: We were free to try out the harp that stood in the living room, admire the works of art on the walls, and discover their many academic certificates and awards that were given pride of place – hanging in the bathroom, above the toilet.
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I had the good fortune to encounter Alia Hogben when I was a public servant in the old multiculturalism program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, following up on a small grant to assist her with her manuscript on the history of Muslim women in Canada. We ended with a good 45-minute conversation on the post-Gulf War and post-9/11 challenges facing young Muslim women, which I had observed while performing other duties for my department.
I was especially impressed by her fervour for Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and how it was a guidepost for women of all communities and origins, but much more so for Muslim women, who had to deal with family pressures and those of a wider society still uncertain about how they should respond. She was practical and direct on this issue when I twice saw her speak frankly to Muslim audiences. She believed strongly that one could best be a good Muslim by being a good Canadian.
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Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating a report that an officer fatally shot a man inside a courtroom in a remote part of northern Ontario on Thursday.
The Special Investigations Unit said a team of investigators is heading to the scene in Wapekeka First Nation.
“Preliminary information indicates an OPP officer fatally shot a man,” SIU spokesperson Kristy Denette said in an emailed statement, adding that more details won’t be available until Friday.
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Canada’s planned recognition of the state of Palestine is a significant step but in many ways the decision is largely symbolic, as experts suggest the move will not have major practical or legal implications in the months ahead.
What did Ottawa say?
Pour justifier ces tarifs, le président a invoqué l’« échec du Canada à enrayer l'afflux de fentanyl ».
Oil sands producer MEG Energy Corp. MEG-T says its profits fell during the second quarter compared with a year earlier.
Net earnings for the quarter came in at $67-million, or 26 cents per diluted share, compared with $136-million, or 50 cents per diluted share, during the same period last year.
Revenue came in at $757-million during the quarter, down from $1.37-billion a year earlier.
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Sylvain Bruneau retrace la carrière marquante d'Eugenie Bouchard au lendemain de son dernier match.
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